HEYDAY OF BRITISH MOTORING

Younger folk don't remember the likes of Fiat, Renault, Citroen, Skoda and Auto Union rotting from the minute you took delivery of them. We had the Mini, MG, Jaguar, Triumph, the Rover P4 range were great cars, oh I forgot the moggy 100 what a workhorse, why do folk have a go at quality when they never experienced it?

Mini - rust bucket from the day before it left the production line, especially the box sills, also the floor in the area of the pedals.

Vauxhall had a reputation for building cars with metal that bent and dented if you put your hand on it.

Rover P4 was still a BL product, but used bolt on panels which were much in demand.

Moggie was from a different era of manufacturing.

Funny thing was that the same panel presses were used to make the BL bodywork as the Rolls Royce and Bentley but they didn't have rust problems

There are a few alternative views of 862BOM here.
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